What to do when the only domain controller in a network gets useless and Team Foundation Server is installed in the workgroup edition. I came accross this issue after a server broke down and there seemed ...

I wanted to share information on an upcoming development tour through the Midwest that I’m involved with. It’s called the Drive Your Development with Visual Studio.NET 2010 tour and you can find more information ...

This last year I had a focus to get more involved in Open Source (OSS). The year before I had been involved a little by submitting a patch here and there, but 2009 was a big year for me in OSS. I now manage ...

Recently I was in a meeting to discuss the new features of Team Foundation Server 2010. The senior management team asked many questions and was duly impressed. Afterwards, I thought that the QA would make ...

I’m really not one to reflect. I prefer to live in the present and consider the future. As such, rather than saying goodbye to 2009 I’m saying Hello to 2010. I’m looking forward to my first full year at ...

Visual Studio Team System 2008 vpcs with new expiration dates!!!! The last set of images was set to expire December 31, 2009. These images were updated with new expiration dates (January 31, 2011) and ...

With IIS7, we have a little bit more isolation with AppPool Identities For example, if you’re using the the DefaultAppPool, if you need to assign permissions to NTFS, SQL, etc., what you’d use instead ...

Its is very typical for companies to have a set of common components. These are typically in one or more assemblies and shared by more than one system.In this post, I'll walk you through my through process ...

Unless you've developed a one-off application, you're more than likely going to need to need to branch. In this post, I'll point you to some great documentation on how to decide on what your branching ...

Previously I wrote an article regarding Unit Testing WCF with Unity. Unit testing allows you to test a single component of your application, completely independent of any other components or systems. Once ...

The below repository structure is taken from a couple of sources and personal experience. Part of it is from the TFS Guide. Now don't dismiss it just because it comes from the TFS guide. It has great advice ...

Lately I have been diving deep into the world of TFS integration with MS Project 2007. What I mean by that is having a project plan that is created and then loaded into TFS as workitems. So the idea is ...

[Updated 23/12/2009: You might also want to check out my colleagues Mike and Mike who did the same] For fun I thought I would have a look at which of my posts in 2009 were my most popular. The results ...

Today is TechDays in Winnipeg. Today I’m doing a session on upgrading to TFS 2010 and new features in VS 2010. Tomorrow I’m doing a session on Configuration Management with TFS. I’m looking forward to ...

In the article Platform Builder: Setting Default Memory Divisions, I discussed using pOEMCalcFSPages() or pfnCalcFSPages() to set the memory division between storage and program memory. In that article ...

Technorati Tags: Tutorials Team Foundation Server Power Tools 2010 Beta 2 (Free) The following are the Power Tools supported in this release. Team Foundation Server Best Practices Analyzer Check-In Policy ...

Windows CE divides the system RAM into two parts; storage memory and program memory. These two parts are equally divided by default. The problem with that is that some systems need to store files than ...

After much frustration with MSDN and the instructions there here are the actual parameters to declare when using the TFSFieldMapping.exe for 2010 Beta 2. Team Foundation Field Mapping Tool Copyright (C) ...

I will formally announce that I have written some of the baddest [actually meaning worse, and not the venaculare where bad is really good] code in the universe. How do I know this? Because I have carefully ...

UPDATE: There has been an updated version posted which resolves the Rules editing problem mentioned below. Way to go TFS team! A TFS 1010 Beta 2 version of the TFS Power tools has been released as announced ...

The latest version of the Scrum for Team System * process template has now been released. This version is designed to work with Team Foundation Server 2010 (Beta 2) and introduces enterprise features to ...

I noticed the problem yesterday and spent the whole day on this. Some of this is documented, some not yet. The problems: When building web applications with TFS's team build (we have 2005) the _PublishedWebsites ...

I like it when Microsoft bridges its technologies out to other platforms. I like the PHP Driver for SQL Server and the samples in the PHP On Windows Training Kit so much that I did a whole session on them ...

*Moved to: Installing Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server SP1I have been trying since SP1 was released to get it installed at Aggreko, but due to our global, three time zones, development team and ...

TeamPrise – the cross platform “client” for TFS, with Eclipse support (plug-in), command line – has been acquired by Microsoft. So, we’ve been pushing folks to a 3rd parties to get back to the ALM Mothership ...

This article describes how to integrate NUnit tests into the TFS build. It also supplies a link to a XSLT file for the conversion between the NUnit results to an MSTest format. The result is great; in ...

For the past year, I’ve been working with a client that is in a very unusual position, at least one that has been rare in my career. My client is an established business being spun off from their corporate ...

Build fails from some strange reason or build does not perform the things you expect it to do, what to do? Every team build in the TeamBuildTypes folder contains a TFSBuild.rsp file, perform a check out ...

We recently had Stephen Toub, a Senior Program Manager on the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft, swing by our office and walked us through some really cool ways to start implementing parallel ...

I was trying to create a Sysprep’d VPC image containing VSTS 2010 Beta 2 + TFS 2010 Beta 2 to distribute to the rest of my team to try out some of the new features. Unfortunately, distributing a Sysprep’d ...

I just went through the process of creating a VHD for use by myself and some other members on my team. I had a pre-built base image with Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 Enterprise that I used to ...

For those of you who missed the chat today, here is the raw transcript. By raw, I mean that I copied and pasted the discussion without any edits. This is divided into two parts, the top part is the answers ...

It can be a challenge to move a project from one TFS source control to another. This is because TFS has the concept of workspaces. These workspaces are generally behind the scenes so you do not know they ...

On codeplex the VSTS Rangers have published the Branching Guidance II (yes, a while ago, but still very true). The basic idea there is the separation between 3 major branches, the Main (or trunk), the ...

*Moved to: A change for the better #2In the last 2+ years at Aggreko I have worked with Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and a number of WPF, Silverlight and ASP.NET ...

While in Redmond last week I was invited to attend and present at the TFS All Hands meeting. What a lot of brain power in one place (actually 2 places; North Carolina and Redmond.) I guess they usually ...

Visual Studio 2010 (beta 2) can be connected to an existing TFS 2008 Server. Much of the new great stuff is then not available, quite naturally. But I was quite positively surprised that some stuff I had ...

Today Telerik released our Beta 2 version of our FREE and popular Work Item Manager and Project Dashboard Tooling. There are a bunch of bug fixes (it was a Beta 1 after all) that have been made and one ...

Between 2nd October and 18th October my current team was using Team Foundation Server for source control and integration. On Sunday I merged the changes from TFS back into our old subversion repository, ...